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# ESA awards OVHcloud and CGI contract to build sovereign Digital EO cloud
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-09-28-esa-ovhcloud-cgi-digital-eo-contract/
- Published: 2026-09-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-28T12:00:26.000Z
- Description: ESA awarded OVHcloud and CGI a multi-million euro, 30-month contract to build Digital EO, pooling cloud storage, compute and AI tools for Copernicus and Destination Earth data, deployed across France, Germany and Italy with support run from Poland.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, Compute and infrastructure, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [EU Today, 28 September 2026](https://eutoday.net/esa-european-cloud-earth-observation-data/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish the exact contract value, which the companies called multi-million euros without a disclosed figure.

**How this item counts.** Towards autonomy: it changes who owns, who operates. Binding 2 of 3 (agreed or funded), scale 3 of 3 (large), Reported counts half: weight +6 of 36 possible. ESA contracts French OVHcloud+CGI to build sovereign Copernicus/DestinE cloud; awarded, not yet live. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)